Words that changed their meaning, sentence 12
Technology gives old words new jobs: a computer mouse, the cloud (online storage), a stream (watching online); the old meanings stay too.
Who acts: Technology, stream, old meanings · What happens: give, watch, stay · To what, where: new jobs, old words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Words that changed their meaning» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Technology, stream, old meanings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Technology | technology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | iobj |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jobs | amod |
| 6 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gives | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 mouse | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouse | det |
| 9 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouse | compound |
| 10 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cloud | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cloud | det |
| 13 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouse | conj |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 storage | punct |
| 15 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 storage | amod |
| 16 | storage | storage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cloud | appos |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 storage | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stream | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 stream | det |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouse | conj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 watching | punct |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 stream | acl |
| 23 | online | online | ADV | _ | 22 watching | advmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 watching | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stay | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 meanings | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 meanings | amod |
| 28 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stay | nsubj |
| 29 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 30 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 stay | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Technology | new jobs | old words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent word=Recipient job=Theme | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a stream not said here | online property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | the old meanings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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